Sub menu

Category: Local Politics

Imagine my delight when WHYY news-boss Chris Satullo asked me to moderate the Milton Street portion of Wednesday’s mayoral forum that was co-sponsored by business group PENJERDEL. Suffice it to say, Street and I had an insightful 20-minute chat covering…

As most of you already know, I’m helming NewsWorks’ online mayoral coverage this year. And, as part of that coverage, I had the bright idea of inviting all of the Philly mayoral candidates to drop by the Quizzo night I…

No, Philadelphia’s Seventh District City Council race doesn’t technically fall under NinetyNine’s mayoral-coverage auspices. But when said council race features racist, homophobic and otherwise insensitive Facebook posts purportedly written by a Democratic Party-endorsed challenger, and that challenger hosts a press…

If you pay attention to Philadelphia politics, you already know who Milton Street is. If you don’t, you should. If only for this coffin-singing video. Here’s my story from yesterday, when he showed up to pay a $130 fine with…

“Since at least one member of the NinetyNine team is a Katy Perry enthusiast — KatyCat is my, er, the preferred nomenclature — we got to thinking: Which of Perry’s pop offerings most apply to each of Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates?”…

“Yeah, Independence Mall is nice and historic and all, but you could sense a palpably magnetic pop-culture connection on those ‘Rocky Steps’ that, while borderline cheesy, can’t be found elsewhere in town. … Why anybody would want to adulterate that,…

Welcome back to Philadelphia, former state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo. If I may leave the land of objectivity for a moment, I’m of the mind that Philly’s public school-funding debacle would be considerably less troublesome had you never gone to…

Esquire did its annual “What I’ve Learned” issue this month. Interviews with noteworthy folks, broken down into concise quotes that summarize what was said in an interview. When Cal Fussman interviewed noted subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, both knew not that…

Far as I’m concerned, everything you need to know about someone can be gleaned from observing them while they face adversity. Take Gov. Chris Christie, for example. He’s a guy I didn’t respect for the longest time. This was solely…

While I don’t really think the whole dog analogy in John Featherman’s latest campaign ad captures the creative flair of the Gaddafi and stripper-politics, far be it from me to pass up the chance to screengrab the one moment in…